I thought that I would want to make a new blog for my new life in Boston, but I think that would get too confusing. What would I do with this blog? And what would be the difference between this one and my new one? Nothing really. So I am going to keep everything, and just continue to build onto this one. I am contemplating changing the name of it to something else. Maybe, “new life in boston”. What do you guys thing?
So many things have happened within the last few weeks. Some good, and some really bad. I will start with the bad. On Saturday, May 5th, I lost my mother unexpectedly. She has had health issues for many years now, but was totally fine and had it all under control. She went in on the Tuesday before for oral surgery, and was fine for a few days. My step father found her Saturday night. Thank God he said it appeared that she passed in her sleep. I am not sure if it was a combo of her medications, or just simply a bad happening for no reason at all. We are still waiting to hear from the autopsy results. All of that happened just days before my finals started. Needless to say, I had a very hard time with it all. My girlfriend flew down the next morning to stay with me until graduation. All of my professors were kind enough to let me do what I needed to do, and just take it easy. I tried to do a few different things to keep myself distracted. There were a few events where I would go and hang out with my friends, which was nice. There was ever more of those once Senior Week came around. Stacy (my girlfriend) was still with me at that point, so it was really good to have her there. I think she really kept me together by just being there.
Graduation came quickly, and I was glad. I knew that my mom was not able to go originally, so it was nice to think that she was actually able to be there that day. That makes me happy to know that, since I know that she really wanted to see my graduate. My dad was there too, which was nice. I had not seen him in a while. I graduated cumme laude, and with a smile on my face. It was so hard to say goodbye to all my friends and my professors though. I had to start saying “I will see you later” instead of “goodbye” - it was just getting to be so hard! I miss everyone at Hollins dearly.
Sunday night (after graduation) Stacy and I started our drive back to MA. We knew that we were going to stay the night on Monday in the Hamptons, so the plan was to stop in Trenton, NJ. By the time we reached Trenton though, I was not tired… so we just kept going. It was nearly 1am, but I knew that it would be easier in the long run to not drive through Brooklyn the next morning because of the traffic. At 2am however… none at all. Just a few cars here and there. It was kind of cool to drive through such a big city and have no one there. We stayed at a Days Inn somewhere on Long Island. Hicksville I think. It rained the entire time we drove. In pockets though… which was frustrating. We didn’t get to bed until 4am. Damn was I tried. 9 hours of driving AFTER GRADUATION. Wooo. I was so overtired to the point where it was hard for me to fall asleep. Don’t you hate that?
Anyway, Monday morning we continued the drive to the Hamptons, and boy was that fun! We stayed with a family friend of mine, who has this beautiful home on a wonderful property. We cooked delicious food and caught up since it had been years. We talked about my mom and shared some stories. There was another woman there who graduated with my moms high school class… so it was nice to talk to her as well.
It was hard to leave on Tuesday, but we needed to get back to Boston! We took 2 ferries through Long Island, and then took the Cross Sound Ferry to New London, CT. It was still raining this whole time, mind you. We made it back by 7pm, and had a relaxed night inside.
Since then, I have just been relaxing and making plans with friends. I am moving into my summer apartment tomorrow, and I am excited! I will be living in Brighton :) I am still in the process of looking for a September year lease though. I am not sure where I will want to live, but so far I am kind of leaning towards Salem in the North Shore. More information on that to come!
Well it is late. And this is already really long already! So goodnight all. I will write later.
